http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Topic: AE CS3 and 4 - Masks and Compositions en Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:39:43 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ae-cs3-and-4-masks-and-compositions#post-51604 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:53:06 +0000 chuckengels 51604@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Pay $25 for a month of access to the tutorials at Lynda.com</p> <p>You can't go wrong for $25, there is over 20 hours of After Effects training along with tons of other stuff.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ae-cs3-and-4-masks-and-compositions#post-51601 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:42:43 +0000 Rambler 51601@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>ya, videocoliot is where I'd go. You might want to check out their tutorials on freezing time and the advanced car hit for work with masking</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ae-cs3-and-4-masks-and-compositions#post-51598 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:31:55 +0000 composite1 51598@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Badmonkey,</p> <p>Masking in CS3+ is not that tough. Once you learn how it works, it's actually pretty easy. You're right, most tutorials aren't very clear and can't answer your specific creative ideas. </p> <p>However, a really good place to learn how this stuff works for free is at VideoCopilot. If you can take Andrew Kramer's horrifically lame attempts at humor, you'll actually learn something.</p> <p>videocopilot.net</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ae-cs3-and-4-masks-and-compositions#post-51575 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:01:47 +0000 badmonkey 51575@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey all,</p> <p> </p> <p>I’m a student in media and communication currently doing<br /> production among other things, previously I did live TV production. As I am<br /> still learning (and forever will be!) I have found this site tremendously<br /> helpful and am hoping the community can help or point me to relevant articles.</p> <p> </p> <p>What I want help with is in After Effects. I have some use<br /> with it, though I’m not nearly as comfortable with it as I am in Premiere,<br /> which is not to say I am a pro or anything. So, bare with me as I ask:</p> <p> </p> <ol> <li>What is a composition exactly and what is it<br /> used for exactly? Some tutorials require you to make a composition, others do<br /> not, meaning you throw footage in and use it. Is it like Sequences in premiere,<br /> where, once you create one you can insert the entire sequence in another which<br /> encompasses all the edits as opposed to copying and pasting everything on the<br /> timeline into another sequence? I know that a sequence is created automatically<br /> when you don’t create one.</li> <li>I look at tutorials that require a lot of<br /> masking. I’ve done some, such as replacing what you see on a TV screen, but say<br /> you want to do special effects where you first have an exploding sausage and<br /> want to make it look like an exploding head, I seem to not grasp the concept of<br /> masking nor can I find anything online to show me the basics. I know the pen<br /> tool is used as a mask when you want t draw something specific, but aside from<br /> this I seem to be lost, for example, by not knowing which footage in the above<br /> scenario would you put as number 1 or 2.</li> </ol> <p>Any help is greatly appreciated!</p>